Venture Concentration, High-Skill Immigration, And Who Should Buy Lyft? | E2067
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Todays show: Jason and Alex discuss the over saturation of venture capital, how to fix the high-skill immigration issue, including an interview with Lisa Wehden of Plymouth, and the pressing question of who should buy Lyft?
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the episode (1:56) Jason and Alex discuss their New Year holidays and resolutions (6:25) Jason shares tips for mindfulness and meditation (8:01) Reflecting on family moments and making memories (10:13) Paddle. Go to paddle.com/twist to get started with your exclusive listener fee-free period.
(11:27) Jason and Alex delve into venture capital and Instacart's funding rounds (17:41) Jason announces focus on early-stage investments and Founder University (19:12) Fitbod. Get 25% off your Fitbod subscription or try out the app for FREE when you sign up now at fitbod.me/TWIST. (21:05) Venture capital fundraising concentration and strategy (25:40) Impact of large funds on seed rounds and venture capital immigration (29:08) LinkedIn Ads. Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit: http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (31:05) Social media weaponization, self-censorship, and high-skilled immigration (36:45) Criticisms, reforms, and solutions to H1B visa issues (45:40) Consultancy costs and Jason's simple solutions for H1B visa reform (50:05) The rise and fall of Bench and Level; predictions for startup failures by 2025 (56:21) Potential mergers in on-demand and autonomous sectors; viability of an Amazon-Lyft merger (1:03:08) Expanding the Mag 8 to reduce tech giant dominance (1:04:33) Valuations of major tech companies (1:05:26) Overview and support offerings of Founder University and getstartupcredits.com
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I want to get into immigration. |
| 0:02.3 | Thank you for, like, bringing up this topic and following my Twitter stream because it is, you know, big on my mind. |
| 0:07.8 | I know people like to know what I'm thinking. |
| 0:09.2 | And I like to share what I'm thinking. |
| 0:10.3 | And I like to share what I'm thinking, Alex. |
| 0:12.4 | People email me. |
| 0:13.5 | Jason at Kalakannis.com is my email for life where they DM me and tell me that I'm a horrible person. |
| 0:19.0 | And, you know, Matt, you got to stop my DMs. |
| 0:22.1 | Dude, |
| 0:22.3 | you got to lock down your DMs, man. |
| 0:23.3 | I love it. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm not lacking my DMs. |
| 0:24.9 | I love the savage DMs I get. |
| 0:26.6 | It's incredible. |
| 0:27.4 | Hmm. |
| 0:27.7 | Okay. |
| 0:28.4 | You don't like them. |
| 0:29.3 | No, |
| 0:29.7 | I tweet them. |
| 0:30.4 | I tweet them out of collections. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm just like, I can only take so much. I think I have a slightly lower bar for negativity day to day than you do. |
| 0:39.6 | I just like after the third or fourth time someone calls me something nasty, I'm just like, |
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